Broadside far from home rare8/31/2023 Wall’s portfolio of engravings of the Hudson River from the 1820s ($180,000 to $250,000) and a group of 1877 chromolithographs of California grape varietals by Hannah Millard ($80,000 to $120,000). The collection includes some of the earliest color-plate books printed in the United States, as well as rarities from the technology’s 19th-century flowering. “It was incredible, like El Dorado,” Geiger said. But not many were invited to visit the private library in his colonial house near the Yale campus. Reese’s shop in two adjoining brownstones in New Haven, which held more than 18,000 items (with thousands more in storage), was an obligatory stop for any serious collector. (It was one of the rare times he underpriced something, a curator later quipped.) He bought it for $800, then arranged to sell it - at the time, one of three or four Aztec manuscripts from the period known to survive - to Yale’s Beinecke Library for a price equal to the remainder of his tuition. His sophomore year, he discovered a 16th-century Indigenous map of the Valley of Mexico at a furniture sale in Detroit.
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